I wouldn’t be surprised if they started going after open-source as a whole and labeling it “communism” like the old Microsoft days.

So much of everybody's infra depends on FOSS. I think every industry giant would dogpile whichever politician tried to go after FOSS as a whole.

	▲	theturtletalks 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The government could give those companies exemptions or give them time to LLM-wash that open-source code directly into their code so they have no dependencies. Those companies will be thrilled because they got the benefit of open-source and now are throwing down the ladder.